Xiaolu Guo

Xiaolu Guo (; born 20 November 1973) is a Chinese-born British author, filmmaker and academic. Her writing and films explore migration, alienation, memory, personal journeys, feminism, translation and transnational identities.

Guo has directed a dozen films, including documentaries and fiction. Her best-known films include ''She, a Chinese'' and ''We Went to Wonderland''. Her novels have been translated into 28 languages. ''Nine Continents: A Memoir in and out of China'' won the National Book Critics Circle Award 2017. In 2013, she was named as one of ''Granta'' magazine's Best of Young British Novelists, a list drawn up once a decade. She was an inaugural fellow of the Columbia Institute of Ideas and Imagination in Paris, France, in 2018, and a jury member for the Man Booker Prize 2019. Provided by Wikipedia